CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
29 January 2007
Product News
Lectra Unveils Easy Grading, the Only Intelligent Automated Grading Application for the Apparel Industry
Lectra announced the release of Easy Grading, a unique and powerful automated grading application. This innovation will be included in Lectra's Modaris and PGS pattern-design solutions.
In a context of permanent collections renewal, multiplying product lines, and body measurement disparities, Easy Grading optimizes the grading process for apparel-sector companies, facilitating and accelerating grading activities by up to 70%. This application also satisfies quality requirements and contributes to perfectly-fitting garments, while enabling professionals to get more precise costing information.
Grade patterns transparently
Easy Grading uses traditional grading methods through Lectra's patented grading calculation tools, allowing users to grade patterns with greater transparency and contributing to grading method sharing and standardization within a company.
With Easy Grading, the operator selects a graphical representation with grading information (a "mask," or template), by product type (pants, shirt, skirt, etc.), from a customized library. After selecting a measurement chart, the operator loads the pattern pieces and positions them onto the mask either manually or automatically. The grading is then performed with the click of the mouse!
Easy Grading's ability to deal with different measurement tables enables apparel-sector companies to customize garment grading to the specific needs of local populations.
Capitalizing on grading knowledge and best practices
"With this intelligent application, which results from more than 30 years of experience in the fashion market, grading of the majority of garments can now be performed by anyone," explains Astrid Marlier, Lectra's product manager for pattern-making and marker-making applications. "Easy Grading enables fashion professionals to optimize grading activity and greatly increase their productivity while capitalizing on the company's knowledge and best practices. With this innovation, grading takes only four clicks and a few minutes!"
Easy Grading has undergone conclusive testing in different applications for women, men and children-wear in several apparel-sector companies around the world.
"Grading is extremely important to us, as it represents one of our main activities," explains Dante Giovannini, Director of Penta Service (Italy). "Before using Easy Grading, an entire day was dedicated to a single product; now we can produce several per day, creating more patterns in the same amount of time."
"We create up to 200 patterns per season, divided among pants, jackets, shorts, and skirts, says Attilio Ferrara, director of Giada (Italy). "With Easy Grading, we now work up to 70% faster than before."
Easy Grading will be released in February 2007 as part of the newest releases of Modaris and PGS, Lectra's world-renowned pattern-design solutions for the apparel industry. These solutions complete Lectra's offering for design, development, manufacturing and product lifecycle management (PLM).
Optimizing industrial processes
"By improving the development of garments, our pattern-design solutions-which now include Easy Grading-offer further proof of our ongoing commitment to simplifying and accelerating industrial processes in order to ensure the success of apparel professionals," stated Lectra CEO, Daniel Harari.
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